Legislative Branch

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Across
  1. 2. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  2. 8. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  3. 9. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  4. 10. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
  5. 13. process of reassigning representation based on population
  6. 16. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
  7. 18. a proposed law
  8. 19. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  9. 21. elected official who is already in office
  10. 24. considers all bills reported from policy and fiscal committees and determines whether, and in what order, to schedule their consideration on the floor of the House
  11. 25. a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly
  12. 27. two house legislature
  13. 29. a temporary replacement
  14. 30. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  15. 31. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  16. 33. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  17. 34. Elected at the beginning of each Congress by members of their respective party conferences to represent them on the Senate floor
  18. 35. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  19. 36. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
Down
  1. 1. review pending legislation and recommend action
  2. 3. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  3. 4. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body
  4. 5. a situation where all parties involved are fully in agreement
  5. 6. the Speaker’s top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party’s legislative program and to steer important bills through the House
  6. 7. meeting
  7. 11. to change, alter
  8. 12. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  9. 14. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
  10. 15. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  11. 17. constitutional duty is to preside over the Senate
  12. 20. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor
  13. 22. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  14. 23. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  15. 26. an event held before an election at which members of a political party select delegates to send to the national party convention
  16. 28. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  17. 32. political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives and is simultaneously the House's presiding officer